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I'm glad he wrote the book and exposed the truth that at least one person here did not want us to know!

You have no reason to believe Jimenez over the facts of the trial and Aaron McKinney himself. Moreover, if this version were truly some great secret and embarrassment to the gay community, then it's interesting that it's a gay author and magazine that Elspeth has linked to on the subject. But you guys have fun with the murder and the topic of violence against gay people which is promoted by your bigotry. Ultimately, you are losing to common sense and constitutional law.

You have no reason to believe Jimenez over the facts of the trial and Aaron McKinney himself. Moreover, if this version were truly some great secret and embarrassment to the gay community, then it's interesting that it's a gay author and magazine that Elspeth has linked to on the subject. But you guys have fun with the murder and the topic of violence against gay people which is promoted by your bigotry. Ultimately, you are losing to common sense and constitutional law.

You have no reason to believe Jimenez over the facts of the trial and Aaron McKinney himself. Moreover, if this version were truly some great secret and embarrassment to the gay community, then it's interesting that it's a gay author and magazine that Elspeth has linked to on the subject. But you guys have fun with the murder and the topic of violence against gay people which is promoted by your bigotry. Ultimately, you are losing to common sense and constitutional law.

Translation:

Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf

You have no reason to believe Jimenez over the facts of the trial and Aaron McKinney himself. Moreover, if this version were truly some great secret and embarrassment to the gay community, then it's interesting that it's a gay author and magazine that Elspeth has linked to on the subject. But you guys have fun with the murder and the topic of violence against gay people which is promoted by your bigotry. Ultimately, you are losing to common sense and constitutional law.

But if the real story gets out it totally blows the whole "Legend of Matthew Sheppard"...he goes from being the poster child Patron Saint of world wide gay oppression to just another hooker turning a trick for drugs.

And it would call into question every story like his and well...the folks driving the Gay Agenda (copyright 1969 Stonewall Press) can't let that happen.

You have no reason to believe Jimenez over the facts of the trial and Aaron McKinney himself. Moreover, if this version were truly some great secret and embarrassment to the gay community, then it's interesting that it's a gay author and magazine that Elspeth has linked to on the subject. But you guys have fun with the murder and the topic of violence against gay people which is promoted by your bigotry. Ultimately, you are losing to common sense and constitutional law.

Constitutional law? Seriously? No one here is arguing against the verdict. The perp was guilty as sin, and deserves his sentence and more. What is being said is that the media narrative about the motive for the crime was false, that it wasn't a hate crime that demanded introspection and soul searching, but a drug crime that warranted a guilty verdict and moving on. It wasn't anyone's "bigotry" that killed him, and the more effort that you apply to this increasingly unsupportable position, the more ridiculous it will become. This is obviously an embarrassment to you, or you wouldn't be putting yourself in that position.

Stephen Jimenez is the author of “The Book of Matt,” a book that calls into question the deeply ingrained narrative that the murder of Matthew Shepard was an anti-gay hate crime. The extensively researched book reveals that the Shepard anti-gay hate crime narrative may be all wrong.

Jimenez, who is gay himself, has been praised by prominent gay rights activists, including Andrew Sullivan. In response to the new information, Sullivan has even called the narrative “a politically convenient myth” deployed to “raise gobs of money and pass unnecessary laws.”

Not to dredge up a dead thread, but our station had Shepard's parents on the news this morning, live in studio. Our bleeding heart liberal anchor woman just broke down after the interview (off air of course).

Not to dredge up a dead thread, but our station had Shepard's parents on the news this morning, live in studio. Our bleeding heart liberal anchor woman just broke down after the interview (off air of course).

True. So what you do is give the school staff the power to stop whatever happens. If it's verbal teasing, you give them the power to tell the kids to stop it. If it's rock throwing, you give them the...